Nielsen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 47 · 1929
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States (1938)
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terrace v. Thompson · Ross v. McIntyre · Geofroy v. Riggs · Asakura v. City of Seattle · William Tucker v. Leo Alexandroff
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Treaties are to be liberally construed so as to effect the apparent intention of the parties. [Citing cases.] When a treaty provision fairly admits of two constructions, one restricting, the other enlarging rights which may be claimed under it, the more liberal interpretation is to be preferred, [citing cases] and as the treaty-making power is independent of and superior to the legislative power of the states, the meaning of treaty provisions so construed is not restricted by any necessity of avoiding possible conflict with state legislation and when so ascertained must prevail over inconsistent state enactments.” (Italics ours.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sattacum · Busby v. State“than are or shall be payable in each State, upon the same, when removed by a citizen or subject of such state respectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no higher or other duties, charges, or taxes of any kind, shall be levied”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.